This Wednesday, the subway workers will paralyze the 6 lines of the service in a staggered manner for 2 hours due to the death of one of their colleagues, Jorge Navarro. The force measurement will be rotating and will take place between 10 a.m. and 12 noon. on lines A and B, 12 hours. to 2 p.m. on D and H and 2 p.m. at 4 p.m. in C, E and the Premetro.
At the beginning of the strike on line B, Claudio Dellecarbonara, a member of the AGTSyP secretariat and a worker on that line, explained in the media the demand for the measure of force, in dialogue with IP Noticias.
Jorge’s is the fourth case of death of a subway worker due to asbestos exposure. A carcinogenic material banned since 2003, but which neither the company that licensed the service nor the different governments in power were responsible for removing it in its entirety.
“It is not only a function of the health of the workers but also a function of the health of all those who in one way or another are related to the subway service as users or as neighbors,” he explained, when asked about the measure, Claudio Dellecarbonara, member of the AGTSyP secretariat.
In addition to Jorge Navarro and the other 3 deceased workers, subway workers report that there are 107 colleagues affected and they even have confirmation of affectation for regular users. Dellecarbonara affirms that it is “a very big health crisis to which the appropriate response has not yet been given.”
Regarding responsibilities, he is forceful: “We have presented an environmental and collective Amparo in the Buenos Aires justice system in 2019 and this Amparo had a favorable ruling, forcing the City government and the company to remove the asbestos.” However, both the concessionaire company and the Buenos Aires administration refuse to fully apply the ruling.
Dellecarbonara also denounces that on line B there are trains that, in addition to being obsolete, on the verge of collapse, not having any type of repair because they no longer have spare parts, are full of asbestos. “Any train that you get on when you travel on line B has asbestos. In other words, you are exposed all the time to the possibility of breathing a fiber and being affected and then dying developing cancer or wearing the fiber on your clothes and ending up contaminating others.” someone in your house,” he said.
That is the situation that exists on line B in particular and on the subway in general and that all the time, Emova and the Buenos Aires Government try to deny or minimize. “That’s why we have to do this,” he explained.
“We do not like to be taking measures, paralyzing the service even in a phased manner because we understand that that is not the purpose of a means of transportation. But, we also understand that the purpose of a means of transportation is not that you are going to travel paying an enormous fee that has no relation to the service that has no relation to your purchasing power and that by traveling they contaminate you and kill you or that you run. the risk of being killed in an accident with obsolete trains,” he said.
Our support for the fighting measures of the Subway workers. There are already 4 colleagues who have died due to asbestos. Businessmen and governments are responsible. https://t.co/owf9GfRdUO
— Nicolas del Caño (@NicolasdelCano) November 20, 2024
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
